We've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Renegade black holes creating stars in its wake
After spotting the lone supermassive black hole, they were surprised to see it had left a trail of bright new stars in its wake. It's possible that interstellar gas is being shocked and heated as the black hole travels through it, triggering the material to collapse and form fresh stars.
The implications of the triggered star formation still need to be worked out; it is interesting to think that quite a few stars may have formed this way But when a third galaxy came along with its own supermassive black hole, it led to an unstable gravitational configuration. One of them got ejected and became the rogue object astronomers later discovered, it's thought."We've looked at many thousands of Hubble images over the years, and none of us had ever seen something like this," van Dokkum said.
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